Organic/green baby showers?

Has anyone succesfully had an organic/green baby shower and have some tips? We only want to dress our little one in organic stuff for 6 months to a year and are very picky about virutally everything for the baby. I'm wondering if people followed your wishes, where your registered, did you note it on the invite?

I've tried to let our families know our wishes in a nice way by putting on Christmas lists "organic baby clothes", needless to say we received typical stuff we didn't want already wtihout receipts! Not sure what I'm supposed to do there now...it was from my MIL. I think my family will follow our wishes.

Has anyone succesfully had an organic/green baby shower and have some tips? We only want to dress our little one in organic stuff for 6 months to a year and are very picky about virutally everything for the baby. I'm wondering if people followed your wishes, where your registered, did you note it on the invite?

I've tried to let our families know our wishes in a nice way by putting on Christmas lists "organic baby clothes", needless to say we received typical stuff we didn't want already wtihout receipts! Not sure what I'm supposed to do there now...it was from my MIL. I think my family will follow our wishes.

Honestly people are going to buy what ever they want to. I didn't register for any clothes in the hopes people won't buy any but I did put on the invitations that we are cloth diapering so hopefuly no one buys us disposable wipes or diapers. I went to a shower last month & I didn't like anything on the girls registry (she had like 5 pack n plays & had registered for stuff for her 4 yr old daughter too like a new mattress this girl went batty with her registry) so I got her an organic cotton outfit and an organic cotton toy lol she doesn't parent any where near the way I do. So I think the only way to come close to getting what you want is to phrase it in a fun way on your shower invites. I have my shower in 2 weeks hopefuly I don't get a bunch of j&j stuff I have to return. That its my biggest fear & I hope people stick to my registry but like I said people will get what they want to get.

Honestly people are going to buy what ever they want to. I didn't register for any clothes in the hopes people won't buy any but I did put on the invitations that we are cloth diapering so hopefuly no one buys us disposable wipes or diapers. I went to a shower last month & I didn't like anything on the girls registry (she had like 5 pack n plays & had registered for stuff for her 4 yr old daughter too like a new mattress this girl went batty with her registry) so I got her an organic cotton outfit and an organic cotton toy lol she doesn't parent any where near the way I do. So I think the only way to come close to getting what you want is to phrase it in a fun way on your shower invites. I have my shower in 2 weeks hopefuly I don't get a bunch of j&j stuff I have to return. That its my biggest fear & I hope people stick to my registry but like I said people will get what they want to get.

Good luck!I was very clear during my pregnancy about the fact that I was cloth diapering, wanting to dress baby in 100% cotton if not organic, wanted natural fibre toys (wood/natural rubber/organic cotton/natural dyes etc). My mom shares the same values as me and has completely respected my wishes. My MIL thinks I'm a "silly hippie" and buys me all this J&J stuff, plastic toys, polyester clothing etc.For my shower I noted on the invites "Baby Oliver will be reducing his tiny footprint by wearing cloth diapers - please no disposables", I registered for only organic/natural toys, clothing, supplies, glass bottles etc. My shower was a sea of synthetic materials anyway; J&J, plastic bottles, dollar store plastic toys, etc. Although I didn't get ONE disposable! I think it was because I specifically asked them not to, guess I should have made the list longer on the invites (haha). Christmas has been the same. I asked family not to even buy toys for baby but they bought the most plasticy, gaudy toys they could get their hands on!Needless to say we haven't used anything, we have almost a room full of this stuff that we will be giving to childrens charities. People are going to get you what they want, not what you want, it's funny. Most people just ignore the registry altogether.

Good luck!I was very clear during my pregnancy about the fact that I was cloth diapering, wanting to dress baby in 100% cotton if not organic, wanted natural fibre toys (wood/natural rubber/organic cotton/natural dyes etc). My mom shares the same values as me and has completely respected my wishes. My MIL thinks I'm a "silly hippie" and buys me all this J&J stuff, plastic toys, polyester clothing etc.For my shower I noted on the invites "Baby Oliver will be reducing his tiny footprint by wearing cloth diapers - please no disposables", I registered for only organic/natural toys, clothing, supplies, glass bottles etc. My shower was a sea of synthetic materials anyway; J&J, plastic bottles, dollar store plastic toys, etc. Although I didn't get ONE disposable! I think it was because I specifically asked them not to, guess I should have made the list longer on the invites (haha). Christmas has been the same. I asked family not to even buy toys for baby but they bought the most plasticy, gaudy toys they could get their hands on!Needless to say we haven't used anything, we have almost a room full of this stuff that we will be giving to childrens charities. People are going to get you what they want, not what you want, it's funny. Most people just ignore the registry altogether.

My plan was to not register for any clothes or gear I'd gotten as hand-me-downs in the hopes that people would shop only from mu registry. Since I didn't find out the sex of our baby beforehand, my plan worked! No one bought clothes or disposable diapers and almost everyone stuck to the registry. It helped that everything I registered for came from Target so it was easy for people to find.

I had an online cloth diaper registry too and got a surprising number of diapers from that!

My plan was to not register for any clothes or gear I'd gotten as hand-me-downs in the hopes that people would shop only from mu registry. Since I didn't find out the sex of our baby beforehand, my plan worked! No one bought clothes or disposable diapers and almost everyone stuck to the registry. It helped that everything I registered for came from Target so it was easy for people to find.

I had an online cloth diaper registry too and got a surprising number of diapers from that!

You could theme your baby shower, something like 'all natural' or 'hippie'. I've found that my more mainstream friends and family sometimes respond better to me if I make a little bit of fun of myself. That way they don't feel like you're being high and mighty and condeming them for the things they do.

You could have all natural, organic, homemade food at the shower and just really play up how you want to keep the baby away from chemicals for as long as possible. That way even if it doesn't work for all of the shower presents, your MIL might start to get the picture.

Otherwise just be sure to register for lots of organic and natural stuff because even some of the things I got that I didn't register for were organic fiber or a more eco and baby friendly than the standard target plastic junk.

You could theme your baby shower, something like 'all natural' or 'hippie'. I've found that my more mainstream friends and family sometimes respond better to me if I make a little bit of fun of myself. That way they don't feel like you're being high and mighty and condeming them for the things they do.

You could have all natural, organic, homemade food at the shower and just really play up how you want to keep the baby away from chemicals for as long as possible. That way even if it doesn't work for all of the shower presents, your MIL might start to get the picture.

Otherwise just be sure to register for lots of organic and natural stuff because even some of the things I got that I didn't register for were organic fiber or a more eco and baby friendly than the standard target plastic junk.

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